New caver

[Raustinb42]

Hey everyone,

I wanted to introduce myself as I plan to be more active on here, specifically to ask questions and learn more from the members of this group. I guess you can consider me a cave tourist. I just completed sidemount / cavern / intro to cave classes in Florida and my instructor recommended that I utilize this forum in order to gain more knowledge and useful insight. We dove Manatee for first day of Side mount / cavern. Then Ginnie Springs for the last 3 days. I picked the wrong week for my vacation as all the other training caves were pretty much blown. It was a great week, I learned a lot and I felt like I proved a lot to myself about being able to problem solve in an emergency situation. Also my fingers are absolutely wrecked.

Anyways. Feel free to talk as much #### as you want, I don?t get offended. But I?m not here to troll anyone. If I ask what you consider a stupid question, please don?t think that I am just messing with you.

[TotDoc]

Congrats on completing your course... and welcome aboard!

[mrki]

I don't get offended.

You must not be from this century then.

Welcome.

[bent]

Feel free to talk as much #### as you want, I don?t get offended.

Challenge accepted

[lord1234]

Here's some #### talk:
Tacodeli is horrible tacos
Torchy's queso is the best
Dirty 6th, East 6th and West 6th are all different versions of dystopian nitemares
MoPac doesn't have real traffic

[Raustinb42]

Lol. Someone has spent some time in ATX. I agree with all those. Now if you went after torchy’s that’d be a different story

[Dominick Gheesling]

My instructor told me the exact opposite:

"Stay Away from the Message Boards!"

Congratulations!

[FW]

My instructor told me the exact opposite:

"Stay Away from the Message Boards!"

Congratulations!

Uh, THIS is a message board

[bwoodill]

Congrats! You definitely didn't have good luck with conditions. Hopefully you can make it down again after things clear up. Let me know if you need someone to dive with.

[Raustinb42]

My instructor told me the exact opposite:

"Stay Away from the Message Boards!"

Congratulations!

I?m more speaking about things like configurations, accident analysis, cave conditions as well as making safe dive buddies.